The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...

IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.

At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...

IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.

At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

MaMuPhi Seminar

During this day, we will explore the status of mathematics based on the supposed structural limits that define their field. Our starting point is that mathematics represent the paradigmatic form of the theory pursuant to the ideal rigor and necessity immanent to their construction. In this respect, the “traditional” idea that the theory that has guided scientific thought since Antiquity is an essentially mathematical idea, that tends to identity in this rigorous theory the possibility of identifying invariants via idealization operations. Such requirements concerning the identification of invariants raises the issue of the theoretical status of objects or fields where it seems impossible to submit an invariance to a standard that, in a certain manner, overlooks the multiplicity of its variations. These are the objects we examine in life sciences or in research on practices of invention; domains of investigation that question the possibility of a theorization, therefore of a mathesis, of that which seems characterizable only as a singularity, discontinue, multiplicity…. The question we want to examine via the presentations throughout the day is the following: is it possible to imagine an effective use for mathematical ideality here or is there no invariance that seems to be identifiable?

Program

10am-1pm

Giuseppe Longo - The Physical Singularity of the Living: Where Are We NowAlessandro Sarti – Differential Heterogenesis and Post-Structural Dynamics: A Theoretical/Mathematical Framework